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Bradburn, traces the president s military career from french and indian war, through the American Revolution. Here we are again. Welcome back to mt. Vernon. My name is doug bradburn. Im the president and ceo of George Washingtons mt. Vernon. And its been my delight to have these opportunities to talk about the story of George Washington. Last wednesday we were in our museum, this is what we call our Education Center here at mt. Vernon. It focuses on the life of George Washington. Really, a grand sense of his biography and why he matters and how he impacted the age that he lived in and why his legacy Still Matters to us today. Last time we w ....
A film about the American Flag, because it was thought that i might bring a fresh vision to a familiar sight. Here in this room i began my work, that would take me back in time and place to the late fall day when i arrived in new york city. To leave one life, and come into another, creates a moment of abrupt break. Behind you is the iron curtain you have broken through. The long waits in the refugee camps, the long lines for processing, and endless paperwork. The daily disappointments. The fear is that they wont be let into their new country. And then suddenly, it is all over. You have arrived at john f. Kennedy airport. All of you is open to every sensation, and every sensation is fresh. My first thought was that i had been put down in a brilliant part of , mostly red, white, and blue. It didnt occur to me that these are the colors of my new flag. They were just brilliant, and were everywhere. On vehicles, on buildings, against th ....
Candidate, eugene debs. This is a class at columbia university, of course i called the american radical tradition, and we started with the American Revolution and have been going through the Abolitionist Movement, early feminism, the civil war reconstruction, labor conflict and the gilded age, the populist movement, and now we are sort of entering into the 20th century and in the next couple of weeks, we will look at the progressive era, a period of, a lot of labor unrest, Industrial Workers of the world, the Womens Suffrage Movement coming to the four. Municipal reform, many other things, but today our subject is, the socialist party, the rise of socialism as a key element of american radicalism in new early 20th century. On our reading li ....
Will look at the progressive era, a period of, you know, a lot of labor unrest, the Industrial Workers of the world, the Womens Suffrage Movement coming to the fore, municipal reform, many other things. But today our subject is the socialist party, the rise of socialism as a key element of american radicalism in the early 20th century. We told him we were in the Suffrage Movement and the various times of socialism at that time. From 1860 at least onward, there had been some kind of socialist presence in the United States, but largely confined to immigrants from europe, particularly germans, english. The emergence of a mass social movement with a real base in the american political system followed and defeat of the populist party in the 1890s. The inh ....